Twitter’s high-water mark of hype
If you thought the hype surrounding Twitter had gone as far as it could, think again.
We seem to be approaching a canonisation, certainly in the way celebrities are anointing the microblogging service and its founders.
Two of them, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, feature in the 2009 Time 100 of the world’s most influential people this week in the “Builders and Titans” section of the magazine. Read more
The IPO door opens a crack
Finally, some good news on the tech financing front.
April turned out to be the best month for tech IPOs in at least a year. OK, two is not a lot to shout about. But that was as many IPOs as the previous 11 months combined, and the stocks have traded up nicely (Chinese games company Changyou by 92 per cent, online education company Rosetta Stone by 66 per cent.)
That probably explains why we hear, through an unconfirmed source, that Jeff Jordan recently bought himself three new suits in preparation for an IPO roadshow. Read more
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Richard Waters has headed the FT's San Francisco bureau since 2002 and covers Google and Microsoft, among other things. A former New York bureau chief for the FT, he is intrigued by Silicon Valley's unique financial and business culture, and is looking forward to covering his second Tech Bust.
Chris Nuttall has been online and messing around with computers for more than 20 years and since 2004 has reported from the FT's San Francisco bureau on semiconductors, video games, consumer electronics and all things interwebby.
Maija Palmer has been writing about technology for the FT since 1999 and is fascinated by cybercrime, privacy and all the other issues of the information society. Based in London, she covers European tech companies and hopes that they won't all get acquired by American rivals.
Robin Kwong is the FT's technology, media and telecoms page editor in London. Formerly he was the Taipei correspondent and wrote about the companies that manufacture the vast majority of the world's computers and gadgets. He is interested in the intricacies of the technology supply chain and how China is increasingly changing the tech landscape.
Tim Bradshaw is the FT's digital media correspondent, and has just moved from London to join our team in San Francisco. He has covered start-ups such as Twitter and Spotify, as well as the online ambitions of more established media companies, such as the BBC iPlayer. He also covers the advertising, marketing and video-game industries. Tim has been writing about technology, business and finance since 2003.
